Re: [CR]Maxi vs's Maxi-Car

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:51:57 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxi vs's Maxi-Car
Cc: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051220143444.01dade40@civenv.unimelb.edu.au>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20051220143444.01dade40@civenv.unimelb.edu.au>


>From the archives:

...Maxi. Pre-dates Maxi-Car - before World War II, these were the preferred hubs in the French technical trials (Vintage Bicycle Quarterly issue 3 will cover the trials).

See the flats on the cone? Maxi are standard cup and cone hubs, albeit very nice ones. Maxi-Car are very different.

Jan Heine, Seattle

On 12/19/05, Geoff Duke <g.duke@civenv.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Reading the latest issue of VBQ I was looking attentively at the
> Rebour drawings and descriptions of the Goeland bicycles.I noticed
> that some of them were equipped with Maxi hubs and some with Maxi-Car
> hubs.What is the difference? Anyone? Merry Christmas.
> Geoff Duke Melbourne Australia

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA

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